Jersey City Free Books Cat Rescue

Jersey City Free Books serves the entire community — including those on four legs! We need your help so that we can help both cats and people. Click on this Link for the Amazon Wish List or donate at our GoFundMe Page. Even just dropping off a bag of kitty litter (non-clumping) when the shop is open will mean a lot. If everyone reading even gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for suffering cats left to fend for themselves.

The picture above shows Little Blake the Ouija Cat, one of our success stories, on August 20, 2012. That’s the day she was rescued after being abandoned on Central Ave. near the post office.

Too weak to stand, the very young kitten was covered with fleas. She also had an eye infection, ear mites, ringworm and intestinal parasites.

Luckily, the tyke was small enough and the day was warm enough so that her entire body could be dipped in the bathroom sink. The fleas still on the head were carefully removed with a fine comb. And that was the easy part! The other conditions required considerable care and the application of medication.

The third picture is from a couple of weeks later. Strength and confidence growing, Blake here had commandeered the recycling bin as her abode.

This picture is from only six months later. Now Blake is a regal lady, as she still is today.

In April, we saved these kittens from a one-way trip to the junk yard. The little crew were in an old car that was about to be towed away. Jersey City Cat Rescue took them all in along with their mother.

Say hello to the mom cat (newly named Jemma), now safe and sound with her whole family in the Jersey City Free Books storeroom.

Little Mitzy caught a cold and so took a trip to the vet.

Luckily her recovery was speedy, but the bill was $184.

These are just a few of the many cats that Jersey City Free Books has saved. More need help!

Little Pat was neutered this week. He's a delicate boy, so he's still recuperating.
A Metro Cat Rescue volunteer saved Little Pat last Labor Day weekend. The then tiny kitten had lost his mom and was crying piteously while trying to hide in the wheel well of a vehicle.
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Metro Cat Rescue coordinates the care of outdoor cats.
Metro Cat Rescue receives no grants or taxpayer dollars. To help kittens and cats in need, we rely on community support. So that Metro Cat Rescue can continue this mission and do more, we need your help. Please donate. It's quick and convenient and safe to use the Link below to the Metro Cat Rescue GoFundMe Page:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-community-cats
Metro Cat Rescue is in DIRE need of support! EVERY day we get requests that we don't have the resources to assist with. This means that kittens and cats are left to die because no one helps us to help them. PLEASE DONATE!
Take a look at the Photos here on the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page and you'll see just some of the many cats that we've helped.
The dream of Metro Cat Rescue is to establish a facility to provide care for homeless kittens and cats with easily treated but contagious conditions -- those innocents that now elsewhere regularly are made to die. Sadly, a lack of funds has kept Metro Cat Rescue's goal on a distant horizon.
Without the necessary resources, each day there are cats that we can't help. Indeed, last summer, there was a dip in donations and adoptions. I would not let the cats go hungry, so I scraped by eating little more than bread, rice and beans myself.
Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies. Click on the Link to DONATE. If everyone reading this gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for suffering cats left to fend for themselves. THANK YOU!
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue
Giving any amount will be a huge help. Unfortunately, right now we have no idea what our funding will be next month — or even next week. Helping to make it possible for Metro Cat Rescue to plan for the future will mean so many more kittens and cats will be saved.
Please do support Metro Cat Rescue! All too often I've had to spend my own grocery money to make sure that the cats were well fed. If Metro Cat Rescue had better facilities and a used SUV or van for transportation, there's so much more that we could do.
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com is the address to use to donate through PayPal.
Instead of posting questions as comments, email inquiries to
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com
Here's the Link to the Metro Cat Rescue Amazon Wish list:
tinyurl.com/MetroCatRescueAmazonWishList
The address for mail and shipping is Anthony Olszewski, CatRescue.tv, 297 Griffith St., Jersey City, NJ 07307
#CatRescue #Kittens #Cats #Charity #OutdoorCats
#NeighborhoodCats #CommunityCats

Metro Cat Rescue is more popular than Joe Piscopo! Jersey Joe has 5,420 Facebook Followers and we've got OVER TEN THOUSAND MORE! Click on over to AM 970 The Answer and Message them to put Metro Cat Rescue on the radio. With the NYC airwaves, we'll tell the everybody that EVERY CAT deserves good care!
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Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies. Visit our GoFundMe Page to donate or click on the Link for the Amazon Wish List. If everyone reading this went to the GoFundMe Page and gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for suffering cats left to fend for themselves. THANK YOU! Here's the Link to help Metro Cat Rescue help kittens and cats in need:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms
If you'd like to support Metro Cat Rescue by contributing through PayPal, the address to use is MetroCatRescue@gmail.com. It would be particularly wonderful if you chose to sustain the mission of Metro Cat Rescue by establishing a monthly donation through our PayPal account. Any amount will be a huge help. Unfortunately, right now we have no idea what our funding will be next month — or even next week. Helping to make it possible for Metro Cat Rescue to plan for the future will mean so many more kittens and cats will be saved.
Instead of posting questions as comments, email inquiries to MetroCatRescue@gmail.com
Here's the Link to the Metro Cat Rescue Amazon Wish list:
tinyurl.com/MetroCatRescueAmazonWishList
The address for mail and shipping is Anthony Olszewski, CatRescue.tv, 297 Griffith St., Jersey City, NJ 07307
#CatRescue #Kittens #Cats #Charity #OutdoorCats
#NeighborhoodCats #CommunityCats

Olaf loves being groomed by his adopted Aunt, Sweetie. Olaf and his brothers are happy and healthy because they were born inside. A Metro Cat Rescue volunteer saved the kittens' mom from the streets.
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Metro Cat Rescue brings inside mother cats living in the streets so their kittens can grow up happy and healthy and hope for good homes. When the babies are on their own, Metro Cat Rescue provides a warm and safe place for the moms and continues to care for them. Here's the Link to help Metro Cat Rescue help kittens and cats in need:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Many hours are spent each day feeding, washing bowls, providing worm medicine and laundering the cats' beds. So that Metro Cat Rescue can do more, we need your help! We've run out of space to take in any additional cats. And there's the time -- with the kittens and moms that we have here now, the day starts at 6am and ends at 11pm.
Last winter, trying to fit more hours in the day by adding extra effort, I quite literally collapsed from exhaustion. For three days after that, I could only be up for 15 minutes or so and then had to lie down to recover some strength.
Metro Cat Rescue needs a bigger and better space. We also need the funds to hire someone -- at least -- part time to help with the chores. Hours are spent cleaning bowls and dishes. Having an automatic dishwasher would make a world of difference. A lot less time would go towards drudgery that then could be used caring for the cats.
Metro Cat Rescue has no cushion of dedicated funds for medical care. As it stands now, for each and every vet visit -- standard checkups and neutering, too, not just emergencies -- has to be paid for by pleading for help on Facebook. This sometimes means that a sick cat suffers for days waiting for medical attention.
Metro Cat Rescue receives no grants or taxpayer dollars. To help kittens and cats in need, we rely on community support. So that Metro Cat Rescue can continue this mission and do more, we need your help. It's quick and convenient and safe to use this Link to the Metro Cat Rescue GoFundMe Page:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Metro Cat Rescue is in DIRE need of support! EVERY day we get requests that we don't have the resources to assist with. This means that kittens are born in the street because no one helps us to help them. PLEASE DONATE!
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Take a look at the Photos here on the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page and you'll see just some of the many cats that we've helped.
The dream of Metro Cat Rescue is to establish a facility to provide care for homeless kittens and cats with easily treated but contagious conditions -- those innocents that now elsewhere regularly are made to die. Sadly, a lack of funds has kept Metro Cat Rescue's goal on a distant horizon.
Without the necessary resources, each day there are poor moms and babies that we can't help. Indeed, last summer, there was a dip in donations and adoptions. I would not let the cats go hungry, so I scraped by eating little more than bread, rice and beans myself.
Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies. Click on the Link to DONATE. If everyone reading this gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for homeless cats that now need to fend for themselves. THANK YOU!
Giving any amount will be a huge help. Unfortunately, right now we have no idea what our funding will be next month — or even next week. Helping to make it possible for Metro Cat Rescue to plan for the future will mean so many more kittens and cats will be saved.
Please do support Metro Cat Rescue! All too often I've had to spend my own grocery money to make sure that the cats were well fed. If Metro Cat Rescue had better facilities and a used SUV or van for transportation, there's so much more that we could do.
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com is the address to use to donate through PayPal.
Instead of posting questions as comments, email inquiries to
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com
Here's the Link to the Metro Cat Rescue Amazon Wish list:
tinyurl.com/MetroCatRescueAmazonWishList
The address for mail and shipping is Anthony Olszewski, CatRescue.tv, 297 Griffith St., Jersey City, NJ 07307
#CatRescue #Kittens #Cats #Charity #OutdoorCats
#NeighborhoodCats #CommunityCats

Here's beautiful mother cat Spumoni with one of her sons, Gandy the Gray. A Metro Cat Rescue volunteer saved the tortie mom so that her babies could have wonderful lives inside.
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Metro Cat Rescue brings inside mother cats living in the streets so their kittens can grow happy and healthy and hope for good homes. When the babies are on their own, Metro Cat Rescue provides a warm and safe place for the moms and continues to care for them. Here's the Link to help Metro Cat Rescuehelp kittens and cats in need:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Many hours are spent each day feeding, washing bowls, providing worm medicine and laundering the cats' beds. So that Metro Cat Rescue can do more, we need your help! We've run out of space to take in any additional cats. And there's the time -- with the kittens and moms that we have here now, the day starts at 6am and ends at 11pm.
Last winter, trying to fit more hours in the day by adding extra effort, I quite literally collapsed from exhaustion. For three days after that, I could only be up for 15 minutes or so and then had to lie down to recover some strength.
Metro Cat Rescue needs a bigger and better space. We also need the funds to hire someone -- at least -- part time to help with the chores. Hours are spent cleaning bowls and dishes. Having an automatic dishwasher would make a world of difference. A lot less time would go towards drudgery that then could be used caring for the cats.
Metro Cat Rescue has no cushion of dedicated funds for medical care. As it stands now, for each and every vet visit -- standard checkups and neutering, too, not just emergencies -- has to be paid for by pleading for help on Facebook. This sometimes means that a sick cat suffers for days waiting for medical attention.
Metro Cat Rescue receives no grants or taxpayer dollars. To help kittens and cats in need, we rely on community support. So that Metro Cat Rescue can continue this mission and do more, we need your help. It's quick and convenient and safe to use this Link to the Metro Cat Rescue GoFundMe Page:
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Metro Cat Rescue is in DIRE need of support! EVERY day we get requests that we don't have the resources to assist with. This means that kittens are born in the street because no one helps us to help them. PLEASE DONATE!
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
Take a look at the Photos here on the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page and you'll see just some of the many cats that we've helped.
The dream of Metro Cat Rescue is to establish a facility to provide care for homeless kittens and cats with easily treated but contagious conditions -- those innocents that now elsewhere regularly are made to die. Sadly, a lack of funds has kept Metro Cat Rescue's goal on a distant horizon.
Without the necessary resources, each day there are poor moms and babies that we can't help. Indeed, last summer, there was a dip in donations and adoptions. I would not let the cats go hungry, so I scraped by eating little more than bread, rice and beans myself.
Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies. Click on the Link to DONATE. If everyone reading this gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for homeless cats that now need to fend for themselves. THANK YOU!
Giving any amount will be a huge help. Unfortunately, right now we have no idea what our funding will be next month — or even next week. Helping to make it possible for Metro Cat Rescue to plan for the future will mean so many more kittens and cats will be saved.
Please do support Metro Cat Rescue! All too often I've had to spend my own grocery money to make sure that the cats were well fed. If Metro Cat Rescue had better facilities and a used SUV or van for transportation, there's so much more that we could do.
www.gofundme.com/metro-cat-rescue-homeless-moms/
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com is the address to use to donate through PayPal.
Instead of posting questions as comments, email inquiries to
MetroCatRescue@gmail.com
Here's the Link to the Metro Cat Rescue Amazon Wish list:
tinyurl.com/MetroCatRescueAmazonWishList
The address for mail and shipping is Anthony Olszewski, CatRescue.tv, 297 Griffith St., Jersey City, NJ 07307
#CatRescue #Kittens #Cats #Charity #OutdoorCats
#NeighborhoodCats #CommunityCats

TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney that would create a registry of those convicted of an animal cruelty crime was approved by the Senate today with a vote of 36-0.

“The abuse and mistreatment of animals violates our standards of basic decency,” said Senator Sweeney. “A registry sends a message that animal cruelty won’t be tolerated at the same time it will help to prevent repeat offenders. We need to protect pets and other animals that are all but defenseless from abuse by people.”

The bill, S-2295, would require the state Department of Health to establish a public animal abuser registry of those convicted of an animal cruelty crime on its website and would also bar anyone found guilty of an animal cruelty offense from becoming an animal control officer.

The registry would be modeled after the similar list of sex offenders under Megan’s Law. According to the bill anyone convicted of animal cruelty in New Jersey would be added to the database. The registry would be publicly accessible on the department’s website.

If enacted, New Jersey would be the second state, after Tennessee, to create an online registry.

The legislation stipulates that within 90 days after the effective date of the bill, the courts, the Department of Law and Public Safety, and any other governmental entity maintaining records of an animal cruelty violation, is to provide written notice of the violation and the name of the person convicted of the violation within past 10 years to the Commissioner of Health for the registry.

The bill also expands the offenses to be considered as disqualifying offenses and authorizes the Commissioner of Health to use the animal abuser registry, once established, to update and maintain the list of persons ineligible to be animal control officers.

Assemblyman Troy Singleton is sponsoring the same legislation, A-3421, in the Assembly.

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Anthony Olszewski has written on a wide variety of topics: cage birds, tropical fish, popular culture, the poetry of Amiri Baraka and a chapter on genetics for a veterinary text book, as a small sample. He worked as an editor at a magazine produced by TFH, the world's largest publisher of pet books. Anthony Olszewski is the author of a booklet on Hudson County history, Hudson County Facts, and a book of short stories, Second Thief, Best Thief, that are sold on Amazon.
Anthony Olszewski established PETCRAFT.com in 1996. A pioneer on the Web, the Site continues to provide unique information on a range of companion animals, focusing on birds and fish.
As a community service, he operates Jersey City Free Books.
Anthony Olszewski was born in Jersey City, NJ (Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, 1956) and is a member of Mensa.
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